O, merry is the Optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing. — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Be merry, really merry. The life of a true Christian should be a perpetual jubilee, a prelude to the festivals of eternity. — Theophane Venard Copy Share Image
I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise. — George Chapman Copy Share Image
Against ill chances men are ever merry, But heaviness foreruns the good event. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Be merry all, be merry all, With holly dress the festive hall; Prepare the song, the feast, the ball, To welcome merry… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love the Christmas-tide, and yet, I notice this, each year I live; I always like the gifts I get, But how… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
Surrounded as we are by the wants and woes of our fellow-men, and yet given to follow our own pleasures, regardless of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
One day the wind blew through the town, and oh, how merry it was! It whistled down the chimneys, and scampered round… — Maud Lindsay Copy Share Image
“The path of genius never did run smooth. But have another piece av cake--do, just to show there's something human about you."… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
A gypsy fire is on the hearth, Sign of the carnival of mirth; Through the dun fields and from the glade Flash… — Jerry Smith Copy Share Image
But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. 'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
But as in wailing there's nought availing, And Death unfailing will strike the blow, Then for that reason, and for a season,… — John Philpot Curran Copy Share Image
I have known some grim bells, with not a single joyous note in the whole peal, so forced to hurry for a… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
Christmas Pie Lo! now is come our joyfull'st feast! Let every man be jolly; Each room with ivy leaves is dressed, And… — George Wither Copy Share Image
Without marriage there will be no renunciation, Buddha would not have left the world - for what? His wife, Yashodhara, must have… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“This is a day of celebration! Today, we are divorcing the past and marrying the present. Dance, and you will find God… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Whiles in the early Winter eve We pass amid the gathering night Some homestead that we had to leave Years past; and… — William Morris Copy Share Image
Disneyland really began when my two daughters were very young. Saturday was always Daddy's Day and I would take them to the… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
“They were the cars at the fair that were whirling around her; no, they were the planets, while the sun stood, burning… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think marriage licenses should be like driver's licenses. They expire after a number of years, and in order to keep… — Jenny McCarthy Copy Share Image
I endeavor to drink deep of philosophy, and to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad,… — Elizabeth Montagu Copy Share Image
Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts To courtship and such fair ostents of love As shall conveniently become you there. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won! — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
It seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters. — Tobsha Learner Copy Share Image
“Some people wish they were as happy as or happy like some people think they are.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals &… — William Morris Copy Share Image
The sport and game of angling is the true means and cause that brings a man into a merry spirit, which makes… — Juliana Berners Copy Share Image
A man hath no better thing under the sun than to eat, and to drink and be merry. — Bible Copy Share Image
The world I believe is far too serious, and being far too serious ... it has need of a wise and merry philosophy. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Singing has nothing to do with the affairs of this world: it is not for the law. Singers are merry, and free… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Griefs upon griefs! Disappointments upon disappointments. What then? This is a gay, merry world notwithstanding. — John Adams Copy Share Image
“How freeing of a thought: instead of worrying about leaving a legacy, to leave no trace of one's existence. How liberating indeed!” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
'Twas merry when You wagered on your angling, when your diver Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he With… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. It is Christmas in the heart that puts… — William Thomas Ellis Copy Share Image
And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of… — Frank Borman Copy Share Image
Tis well to be merry and wise, 'Tis well to be honest and true; It is best to be off with the… — Charles Robert Maturin Copy Share Image
